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Farming

Honey Islands on the Nile

The Nile is home to a great diversity of villages and communities along the whole river, one of which being a cluster of islands that specialize in beekeeping and producing honey. Beekeeping, also known as apiculture, has been traced back to 3500 BC and continues today on the agricultural islands on the Nile River.

Iraq Bans Farming because They’re Running out of Water

SOURCE: NEW YORK POST MISHKHAB, Iraq — Iraq has banned its farmers from planting summer crops this year as the country grapples with a crippling water shortage that shows few signs of abating. Citing high temperatures and insufficient rains, Dhafer Abdalla, an adviser to Iraq’s Ministry of Water Resources, told The Associated Press that the … Continued

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